14 Actions

Why are people making tables with divs?This is ridiculous and lazy. Anything you're doing with <div> “tables” could probably be done with regular ones, so there's literally no reason (apart from old IE versions and laziness) to use non-semantic elements for building tables. That said, actual tabular data seems rare on the internet so maybe this is a non-issue.

Advice on reconciling discordant dataThis seems similar to stock (and similar) market prices. A moving average would probably provide a fairly accurate value over time, for an appropriate number of terms. Subtracting the moving average from the actual data points would then give you fluctuations you could treat as a stochastic process, to obtain variances and deviations and such.